Enhancement of forced convection heat transfer from fin arrays with circular perforation

Rapid heat removal from heated surfaces and reducing material weight and cost become a major task for design of heat exchanger equipments like Cooling of I C engines. Development of super heat exchangers requires fabrication of efficient techniques to exchange great amount of heat between surface such as extended surface and ambient fluid. The present paper reports, an experimental study to investigate the heat transfer enhancement in rectangular fin arrays with circular perforation equipped on horizontal flat surface in horizontal rectangular duct. The data used in performance analyses were obtained experimentally by varying flow, different heat inputs and geometrical conditions. The experiment covered Reynolds number range from 3000–6000, based on the flow average inlet velocity and hydraulic diameter. Clearance ratio (C/H) 0.45, inter-fin spacing ratio (S/H) 0.22, duct width 150mm, height 100mm and fin size of both solid and perforated (weight reduction) were 100mm × 55mm × 3mm. For various heat inputs and flow rates values of Reynolds and Nusselt number were obtained. The results of perforated fin arrays have been compared with its external dimensionally equivalent solid fin arrays. It shows that enhancement in heat transfer of perforated fin arrays than solid fin arrays.